Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost! – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
If some things don’t make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing